Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 2 | ‘ I certainly ca n't think of anyone who has got all his attributes ’ . |
| 3 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 4 | There are still those who say they ca n't get used to Citroen steering and that the suspension makes them sick ; there are many more who say getting used to any other sort of steering after driving a D- or C-series car is much the more difficult adaptation to make . |
| 5 | For those who want to get wet but stay dry , simply answer the three easy questions below , and then spot the fish to win Beaver 's superb Iceberg drysuit . |
| 6 | Whatever , it got him a long , heartfelt , high-pitched ‘ Wooooooooooooooo ’ from about 20,000 people who 'd got little else to wooo about . |
| 7 | It , it was gon na cost me a thousand but I 've done a deal with a guy who 'd got stuck with some in Manchester so it 's gon na cost me five hundred which I 'm getting done this Friday . |
| 8 | And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market . |
| 9 | As for the rest of the staff , I will miss each one of the people who served to get this magazine on its feet . |
| 10 | This is a good option for those who like to get stuck in . |
| 11 | Among its assets are the Grand Theatre , its charmingly over-decorated and atmospheric Leeds home , with an Italianate intimacy to its horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; an orchestra and chorus , young in heart , age , and sound , who seems to get better every time I hear them ; and a musical director , David Lloyd-Jones , who has done twelve years of sterling service and will be promisingly succeeded in August by Paul Daniel . |
| 12 | I know of a manager who seems to get great pleasure by bullying females and male w and male workers . |
| 13 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
| 14 | In the group to which I paid closest attention my surprise was more at the unremarkable calibre of several who did get through than at any apparently unfairly rejected . |
| 15 | You think about salesmen who 've got ongoing relationship with their client . |
| 16 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 17 | On the reduced T V licence fees well I think we all recognize that everybody who 's unemployed is n't living in the lap of luxury drinking ten double whiskies a day hitting the racecourses with a top hat and tail on the only pleasure , especially people who 've got young children to bring up is the television and such is the price of the licence nowadays that in order to sustain that other things in the family are going short . |
| 18 | Now , parents in the room who 've got young children , when was the last time you actually went to school sports day ? |
| 19 | Hold on , it 's not people who 've got spare money , it 's people who |
| 20 | erm er it 's very interesting because of course the children grow up probably much more comfortable around people who 've got mental problems than you or I would be |
| 21 | whereas we 've got friends who 've got older children well a little bit there 's , yeah , three or four years between |
| 22 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 23 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 24 | So we we , in a sense we 've got a a clash of of principles or a conflict , between for example , the government wanting the the Lincolnshire Tech to have an hundred per cent output related funding , based on jobs and N V Q's which is not er er perhaps , er an easy way of delivering output related funding services to people who 've got special training needs . |
| 25 | They encountered unexpected opposition from the Queen herself who had got used to ‘ her ’ carriages and objected to their being changed . |
| 26 | Already as early as 1436 the word had lost its original connotation of nobleman , and been extended to cover merchants and yeomen who had got rich , together with some landowners of as little as £5 a year claiming the title . |
| 27 | That 's when Major , who was on the photo , he was Major in the army of nineteen fourteen eighteen M C Major M C , military cross well he took charge and er a chap off the shop floor , well he was an old contemptible of the nineteen fourteen to eighteen war , name of Bert he was made Sergeant because he was only one who had got any military experience , and he started with us on the shop floor in doing foot drill . |
| 28 | PC Stephen Huntrod climbed four storeys to rescue a 19-year-old man who had got stuck on the roof of the unsafe Old Vic theatre in Front Street , Stanley , in November . |
| 29 | It is easy to argue , invoking self-righteous precedents , that the lady who hurries to assist the injured animal or pedestrian in the street or who feeds the beggar on her doorstep , but who fails to get excited about suffering in general and shows a disinclination to contribute to Oxfam , is really not a good Samaritan ; that she is morally short-sighted in letting ‘ distance ’ be a factor , and that she should be equally concerned for suffering whenever and wherever . |
| 30 | Yeah , is people who have got rich parents . |